After trying out the Macintosh versions of Picasa and Google Quick Search Box, the Google Software Updater keeps popping up even after I uninstalled both applications.

Usually uninstalling a Mac application is as simple as dragging the .app file (Picasa.app‘ and ‘Quick Search Box.app) into the Trash, but in this case some extra work was needed:

According to Google’s support pages, uninstalling Google Software Update involves running one of the commands mentioned below on the command line:

Uninstall Google Software Update for the current user only:

sudo ~/Library/Google/GoogleSoftwareUpdate/
  GoogleSoftwareUpdate.bundle/Contents/Resources/
  GoogleSoftwareUpdateAgent.app/Contents/Resources/
  install.py --uninstall

Uninstall Google Software Update for all users:

sudo /Library/Google/GoogleSoftwareUpdate/
  GoogleSoftwareUpdate.bundle/Contents/Resources/
  GoogleSoftwareUpdateAgent.app/Contents/Resources/
  install.py --uninstall
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